Morning

Synopsis

The end of summer. Two friends about to go their separate ways. But they will always share one moment. A moment that changed them forever.

Our Review:

Michael Coveney - 6 August 2012

"Philosophers have only interpreted the world," said Karl Marx, "the point is to change it." This rousing slogan is daubed by seventeen year-old Stephanie on the plastic sheeting that covers her mother's deathbed.

It's an unlikely, out-of-character statement, and she follows with a speech of nihilistic despair: there is no connection between anything, no message. We could recycle. We could refuse to recycle. There is only terror. There is no hope.

Morning is this week's new play from the irrepressible Simon Stephens, written for the Lyric Young Company at the Lyric, Hammersmith (where it opens after the festival), directed by Sean Holmes and including some remarkable, neutralised performances from Scarlet Billham as Stephanie, [Joana ...

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Lucy Joe Jones - 21 September 2012:

Terrible play. I agree with the other one star. Probably it is scripted but in such a terrible piece it seems plausible that the actress had just given up the ghost. Could have been relevant and cutting-edge, instead was violent without redemption or reflection and offered no insight or originality. Could have been written by a teenager and would indeed have been a more forgivable waste of time and money if it had been. Any play where the actors have to sing- badly and for no reason- suggests a lack of storyline and thought....

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